I just heard that freshman coming in that have a ROTC contract can't choice their Outfit anymore, thoughts?
If you are in scholarship, you are there for the ROTC program and not just to have fun in the Corps. So it is still a military organization for scholarship and contract cadets. If this is true, I am sure it is the ROTCs wanting to protect their investment.PhilipHarrison said:
That would be good and all but the crops isn't a military organization anymore
Currently, or is this a change coming?INOX said:
I don't believe they get to "choose". They're asked for their top 3 preferences and then Bulls decide. I don't know their criteria but I'm sure they take the fish preference into consideration but ultimately it will depend on whats best for the Corps.
completely agree, in fact I've had quite a few conversations with zoomie buddies in the AF and there is no sense of individual squadron uniqueness like there are amongst the outfits at A&M. I'd hate to see the Corps lose this. I couldn't imagine being ripped away from all my buddies who I went through fish year with only to be thrown in with a random new group of people and start that whole process over again. The Texas A&M Corps is not a service academy and that is OK.Ol Jock 99 said:
Seems pretty evident that the current master goal is to remove all outfit uniqueness in favor of conformity. Pretty much how West Post does it. Definitely not my preference, but I was in a very strong outfit. Might have a different opinion if I was in a struggling one.
bigplay said:
This is Colonel (Ret) Sam Hawes '81 from Corps Recruiting and I have no idea where you get your news but this is not true. ROTC scholarship cadets still get the opportunity to request their unit and we do all we can to place them in the unit they want. Just like we've done in the past 7 years that I've been in charge of recruiting, we don't guarantee their first choice. Outfits still assist with recruiting and have an opportunity to submit some names of cadets to us to save them a spot. If an incoming cadet is "legacy" we will still place them in the unit just like we've done in the past. Our only recent change is to manage the distribution of ROTC scholarship cadets across all the units so that you don't have some units with a ton of ROTC scholarship cadets and some with none. We ask all incoming cadets for their top 3 choices and we have a method of assigning them based on their NSC date, what the outfits have requested, legacy, etc... This is a balance of honoring student requests, outfit requests and ensuring we take care of the entire Corps and not a select few outfits. I personally work directly with the outfit Commanders and recruiting chain to resolve any issues. This is also the way we work it for the non-scholarship cadets. As some remember only a few years ago we had some outfits with 100 cadets and we also had some under 25 cadets. We have grown the Corps and added about a dozen outfits as well as making all the outfits strong across the board instead of having a few huge outfits and all the others fighting for survival.